To Die Just Once (43/49)

To Die Just Once (43/49)

In this episode of Tatort, Batic and Leitmayer investigate a particularly perplexing case. A woman is dead, her partner is in a critical condition in hospital and her son is traumatized. Then they discover that her partner had been the shooter in a family murder-suicide case fifteen years previously.

In a single-family home in Munich, Batic and Leitmayr find the dead body of Michaela Danzer and the unconscious, wounded body of her partner Daniel Ruppert. Quirin, the dead woman's six-year old son, has disappeared. He is found later that same night, completely shell-shocked, at the front doors of a hospital. Quirin is apparently an important witness, but he will not speak a word. During the emergency operation on Daniel Ruppert, the doctor discovers the scar of an old gunshot wound. This scar leads Batic and Leitmayr to an attempted family suicide in Augsburg fifteen years previously. What happened there appears - tragically - to have been repeated here today. And again Daniel Ruppert, the culprit from back then, is involved. In the previous case in Augsburg there was one other survivor in addition to the shooter, Ruppert: Ella, his seven-year old daughter. That the culprit from back then is the victim now is causing Batic and Leitmayr quite a headache.